Stefan Schädle has been a member of the Investment Committee since 2008.
Stefan Schädle, Dipl. Arch. ETH/SIA, MRICS, was born in 1963 in Zurich. After high school he studied architecture at the ETH (Federal Technical University) in Zurich. He subsequently took a postgraduate degree in economics at the St Gallen Management College. Until 1999 he ran an architectural and urban planning practice. At the same time he served as a construction expert with the EMPA research center for materials science and technology. From 1999 to 2003 he was a real estate consultant with Ernst & Young AG in the audit, real estate advisory services and corporate finance divisions. As a board member of the Zurich Cantonal Bank he ran its real estate valuation and consultancy division from 2003 to 2007. Since then Stefan Schädle has been Head of Real Estate Management and board member at BVK, the staff pension scheme for the Canton of Zurich. He is responsible for strategic real estate management. In addition he is a lecturer on various degree courses.
Since 2004, Andreas Markwalder has been President of the Board of Trustees and a Member of the Investment Committee.
Since 2014, he has also been the Director responsible for operational management at GastroSocial. Before that, and since 2000, he served as Head of Asset Management and CIO at the GastroSocial pension fund, where he was responsible for assets under management of CHF 5 billion and the Real Estate / Mortgage business. He is also President of the FIDIP Real Estate Investment Foundation and Vice President of the Board of IST Investment Foundation for Pension Funds. He is also active as an Executive Member of a real estate company and member of the Executive Board and the Management of IGAKIS Syndicate for Compensation Funds‐Information Systems. Previously, he was self-employed as an IT and business consultant in the pension fund sector.
Andreas Mark Walder gained a degree in economics at the University of Zurich (lic.oec. Publ.) where he specialised in business information systems.
